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2019 theatrical releases

Blowin’ Up documentary review: women getting shit done

Mon, Apr 01, 2019
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A fly-on-the-wall peek into a court in New York City where women work to help other women with realistic solutions to complicated problems. A wonderful ode to creative and compassionate thinking.

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The White Crow movie review: nothing to crow about

Fri, Mar 29, 2019
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Elegant but dull, and so subtle it’s downright diffuse. If you don’t know much about Rudolf Nureyev going in, you won’t know much coming out, either. Weirdly, it doesn’t even feature much dancing.

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The Brink documentary review: a nasty piece of work

Thu, Mar 28, 2019
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I feared a portrait of human dumpster fire Steve Bannon would humanize him, but he’s beyond that. Can we use this inside look at his political and cultural manipulations to stop his fomenting of hate?

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Dumbo (2019) movie review: you will not believe an elephant can fly

Wed, Mar 27, 2019
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The most soulless of the live-action Disney remakes yet, weighted down by too many blah characters, too much convoluted plot, unconvincing CGI, and a message that doesn’t say what it thinks it does.

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Out of Blue movie review: murder most muted

Fri, Mar 22, 2019
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A limp noodle of a cinematic noir that drains Patricia Clarkson of her usual eccentric charisma. And where it aims for intriguingly oblique pseudoscientific philosophizing, it ends up merely obtuse.

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The Crossing (Guo Chun Tian) movie review: smuggler’s blahs

Fri, Mar 22, 2019
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This uninvolving coming-of-age crime drama tries to dazzle with visual tricksiness, but it cannot make up for its teen protagonist who is mere metaphorical symbol, and a bystander in her own story.

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Us movie review: a new kind of horror for a newly precarious world

Wed, Mar 20, 2019
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An anxious moan, a looming disquiet of a reckoning coming for America. This is horror as weird, funny, damning, and more disconcerting the more you think about it, finding fear right in front of us.

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The Fight movie review: a woman’s struggle is real…

Sat, Mar 16, 2019
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Actor Jessica Hynes makes an astonishing directorial debut with this disconcerting little movie about women’s everyday anger and resentment, and the absolute battle just to get through the day.

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Five Feet Apart movie review: love/sick teen romance

Thu, Mar 14, 2019
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Beautiful teens fall in love while dying prettily in this year’s tragic young romance, one that medical necessity renders refreshingly chaste. Best bit: Star Haley Lu Richardson is genuinely charming.

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Children of the Snow Land documentary review: an epic journey… to and from school

Wed, Mar 13, 2019
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An unexpected, beautiful movie about the character and mettle it takes just to go to school when you come from one of the poorest and most remote places on the planet. A profoundly moving journey.

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